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Sea Coast Grace supports We’ve Got Your Back
Junior High students from Sea Coast Grace Church’s Summer Splash program volunteered their time last week to support the We’ve Got Your Back program. After hosting a food drive to benefit WGYB, Sea Coast Grace leader, Julie Knowles — along with the group of students, organized their donations onto the new shelves in the warehouse, sorted and counted medical supplies and stocked the Mission Store.
Sea Coast Grace also presented Giving Children Hope with a financial gift. A huge thank you to the Summer Splash participants for all of your hard work and support!
Southern California Edison Gives Back
In May, volunteers from Southern California Edison’s Business Process Team visited the Giving Children Hope facilities for their corporate service project.
The team brought with them 18 boxes of food items collected at the Long Beach and Rancho Cucamonga call centers to donate toward the local We’ve Got Your Back program to help provide meals every weekend for homeless children in Orange County.
SCE’s donation, which the team helped sort during their visit, was able to fill 36 backpacks – providing 36 families with food for the weekend!
In addition to assisting with We’ve Got Your Back, the SCE team also helped to sort medical supplies for upcoming shipments to communities in need around the world.
Team members report on their experiences in the Southern California Edison’s May edition of their newsletter:
“It was a lot of hard work, rewarding and fun at the same time!” – Analyst Dara Green.
“A kind gesture lasts a lifetime” – DA analyst Sharletta Stitt.
“I feel fortunate to work for a company that values people. We didn’t just spend a day there to make ourselves feel good, but we helped to save lives. You cannot put a price on that.” – Communications specialist Robert Boyd.
“It was an eye opener and I felt great knowing we were saving lives by sorting medical supplies.” – Communications Support Pool, Ernie Sanchez.
A Big thank you to the Southern California Edison Business Process Team for generously volunteering your time and the wonderful contributions made to GCHope!
NAAAP-OC hosts food drive for the WGYB in partnership with UPS and the Red Cross
This week UPS employees came to GCHope headquarters to deliver food collected from a food drive hosted by the NAAAP-OC. Here’s what Margaret Lim NAAAP-OC Community Outreach Chair had to say:
As the Community Outreach Chairperson for National Association of Asian American Professionals – Orange County (NAAAP-OC), I can say emphatically that the food drive was made possible due to the participation of volunteers and the involvement of several community-oriented organizations: 281 participants donating food boxes or backpacks of specified food items, Disney for the ingenious idea of offering Disney tickets to registrants performing qualifying volunteer service, UPS employees volunteering on their own time to load the donated food in a UPS truck at the collection site and deliver it to the Giving Children Hope warehouse, and the Orange County Red Cross for allowing NAAAP-OC to use its facilities as a collection site for the food donations.
What caused you to get involved?
I was convinced this was the project for NAAAP-OC to undertake after reading the stated goal of the program: “To meet the needs of children in Orange County identified as homeless by continuously providing a stable and nutritious source of food to carry home during the weekends along with providing them with nutritional education.”
Instead of collecting any food, Giving Children Hope is encouraging the consumption of more nutritious and less sugary food for the needy families.
Who was involved in planning this food drive?
The Community Outreach Committee planned the food drive by making it a Give a Day Get a Disney Day volunteer opportunity and then partnering with the Orange County Red Cross to hold the food collection on its premises and with UPS to provide the delivery service of the donated food to Giving Children Hope.
How many people participated?
Since 281 food boxes / backpacks were collected at the food drive on April 5, there were at least that many participants who donated food. Besides them, four NAAAP-OC members helped with the check-in and four UPS employees loaded the food onto the delivery truck.
Engaging and participating with the community-at-large is one of NAAAP-OC’s mission. As the Community Outreach Chair, I regard it as my responsibility to create opportunities for the members to connect with the community through volunteer service. We can make leaders by empowering people to serve the community and make a meaningful difference.
Girl Scouts Troupe Hosting Food Drive
Girl Scouts Troupe 783 is hosting food drives in various schools to help support the We’ve Got Your Back program at GCHope. The food will be sorted and stuffed in backpacks and delivered to help many homeless children in Orange County!
Buena Park Women’s Club Food Drive
The Buena Park Women’s Club held a food drive for our We’ve Got Your Back program on October 24.
They were able to raise more than 350 food items and $45 for the homeless children in Orange County.
We would like to thank Sandy Smith, Virginia Vaughn, Laura Martin, Diane Meis, Chonie Sinclair, Tami Gallegos, Roslyn Daily, Chris Salts and Barbara Berg (from left to right in the picture) for their wonderful contributions.
